Agencies and Organisations Flashcards
What is the main function of ‘The Health and Safety Executive (HSE)’?
Main function is to protect people against risks to health and safety.
What does (HSE) do?
- Responsible for preparing a raft of health and safety legislation covering most aspects of onshore and offshore activity including the CDM
Regulations. - Preparing Codes of Practice and other documents as a guide to the interpretation of the regulations.
- Investigates breaches of the regulations and reportable incidents and prosecutes employers and others where there has been serious injury or death due to a failure to observe health and safety legislation.
What are the three main responsibilities of Historic Scotland?
- Responsible for delivering policy in respect of all aspects of Scotland’s historic environment
- Responsible for safeguarding the nation’s historic environment and promoting its understanding.
- Responsible for scheduling sites and buildings of architectural, archaeological and/or historic interest, including the “listing” of buildings.
What are some of Historic Scotland’s main roles?
- Comments of applications which involve listed building consent.
- Awards grants for certain aspects of repairs to listed buildings.
- Runs buildings that are in state care.
What is (HMRC) HM Revenue and Customs responsible for?
They are responsible for the UK’s tax system including:
- Corporation Tax (applies to businesses only).
- Capital Gains Tax on individuals.
- Inheritance Tax on individuals.
- PAYE – pay as you earn contributions by employees and employers along with tax coding.
- Employee and Employer National Insurance contributions
- The implementation of Value Added Tax (VAT) on sales and acquisitions relating to business. - Businesses must be registered for VAT where turnover exceeds £79,000 (2013)
What are the main roles of the Energy saving trust?
- Code for sustainable homes. New homes to be zero rated by 2016.
Ass - Assesses and grades products according to their energy rating.
- Contributes towards Section 6 of the Building Standards Regulations in Scotland.
- Publications
What is the key roles and objectives of the Carbon Trust?
- Mission to accelerate the move to a sustainable low carbon economy
- Promotes the use of renewable energy systems – wind power, gray water, heat pumps etc.
- Enhanced capital allowances on selected equipment (eg accelerated tax relief)
- Advice to industry – publications.
Grants.
What are the three key areas of (BRE) Building Research Establishment?
BRE Global
- Research and writing of Standards
- Testing and Certification
- Research and consultancy
LPCB - Approval of Fire and security products
BREEAM - BRE Environmental Assessment Method
- Environmental efficiency calculator
What does WRAP do? (Waste Resource Action Plan)
- Assists government in devising strategy.
- Prepares programmes for reducing waste in government funded project work
What is the role of SEPA? (The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency)
- Scotland’s Environmental regulator.
- Role to protect and improve the environment by advising industry, regulating and monitoring activities that could cause harmful pollution.
- Monitoring the quality of Scotland’s air, land and water.
- Publications
- Contaminated land
- Emissions
- Pollution prevention
- Waste management
- Water regulator
What is the role of Scottish Water?
- Making connections to households
- Responsible for treating and delivering water to households and industry and for the supply infrastructure
- Responsible for the “public” sewer infrastructure and for the treatment of waste and trade effluent
- Licensing of standpipes
What to ‘The Building Standards Division’ do?
- The Buildings Standards Division of the Scottish Government is responsible for planning and architectural policy within Scotland.
- It is also responsible for writing the Scottish Building Regulations along with the domestic and non-domestic Technical handbooks which govern most aspects of construction in Scotland and are used as the bases for assessing compliance when applications are made for Building Warrant.
What does the NBS do? (The National Building Specification)
- NBS is wholly owned by RIBA Enterprises Ltd.
- NBS offers distinctive, innovative specification and information solutions to construction industry professionals.
- Established for more than 40 years.
- A national standard specification system for the UK.
- NBS specification products cover building construction, engineering services and landscape design.
